Environment
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TRADE UNIONS AND JUST TRANSITION: TUED WORKING PAPER #11
By Sean Sweeney and John Treat The concept of “Just Transition” has become increasingly in vogue in recent years in international political circles. While commonly ascribed to be “transformative” in potential, like any fashionable term it runs the risk of being emptied of content and coopted by arbiters of the status quo. So what really is…
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Graduate Class: Climate Crisis and the Labor Movement
The Labor Studies Program invites all union members, activists, and CUNY & non‐CUNY graduate-level students to enroll in our special topics graduate class: CLIMATE CRISIS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT: Trade Unions and Social Movement Approaches to Climate Change and Ecological Degradation Taught by Sean Sweeney Thursdays, January 28th to May 12th, 2016 @ 6:15-8:45pm The emergence…
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Unprecedented? Unions and Community Unite to Halt Plans to Build Coal Export Terminal in Oakland, California
By Elena Mora for Trade Unions for Energy Democracy A short but well-organized campaign to stop plans to build a coal export terminal in the Oakland Port resulted in a packed Oakland City Council meeting on September 21, and a vote requiring a public health impact study to guide the Council’s action, up to and…
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Graduate Class: Trade Unions and Social Movement Approaches to Climate Change and Ecological Degradation
The Labor Studies Program invites all CUNY and non‐CUNY graduate-level students to enroll in our special topics graduate class: LABOR & ENVIRONMENT: Trade Unions and Social Movement Approaches to Climate Change and Ecological Degradation Facilitated by Sean Sweeney Thursdays, Aug. 27th to Dec. 17th, 2015 @ 6:15-8:45pm The emergence of alarming scientific data on climate…